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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 4537

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By Senators Bauer, Peterson, Patterson, Bender and Vognild

Read first time 1/15/86 and referred to Committee on Transportation.

AN ACT Relating to driving with an expired license; and amending RCW 46.64.020.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  Section 46.64.020, chapter 12, Laws of 1961 as amended by section 8, chapter 128, Laws of 1980 and RCW 46.64.020 are each amended to read as follows:

          Any person wilfully violating his written and signed promise to appear in court or his written and signed promise to respond to a notice of traffic infraction, as provided in this title, ((shall be)) is guilty of a misdemeanor regardless of the disposition of the charge upon which he was originally arrested or the disposition of the notice of infraction:  PROVIDED, That a written promise to appear in court or a written promise to respond to a notice of traffic infraction may be complied with by an appearance by counsel:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That a person charged under RCW 46.20.021 with driving with an expired driver's license may respond by mailing to the court within fifteen days of the violation,  a copy of the person's currently valid driver's license.  Any person who has been issued a notice of infraction pursuant to RCW 46.63.030(3) and who wilfully fails to respond as provided in this title ((shall be)) is guilty of a misdemeanor regardless of the disposition of the notice of infraction.